15 Apr 2020

Frontline workers are ‘undervalued and underpaid’ says Labour leader

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Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, has called on the government to be open about its plans to ease the lockdown.

Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, has called on the government to be open about its plans to ease the lockdown.

He says he is willing to give opposition support to the plan but that it needs to be communicated in an open fashion to gain public trust.

He also said we need to remember families shaken by loss, like the family of nurse Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, a pregnant nurse who died with Covid-19.